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1835-1859

  • Any one who offers his beauty to auction, a hundred evil fates set out towards him (and overtake him). 1835
  • هر که داد او حسن خود را در مزاد ** صد قضای بد سوی او رو نهاد

  • (Evil) eyes and angers and envies pour upon his head, like water from waterskins.
  • چشمها و خشمها و رشکها ** بر سرش ریزد چو آب از مشکها

  • Foes tear him to pieces from jealousy; even friends take his lifetime away.
  • دشمنان او را ز غیرت می‌‌درند ** دوستان هم روزگارش می‌‌برند

  • He that was heedless of the sowing and the springtide, how should he know the value of this lifetime?
  • آن که غافل بود از کشت بهار ** او چه داند قیمت این روزگار

  • You must flee to the shelter of God's grace, who shed thousand fold grace upon (our) spirits,
  • در پناه لطف حق باید گریخت ** کاو هزاران لطف بر ارواح ریخت‌‌

  • That you may find a shelter. Then how (will you lack) shelter? Water and fire will become your army. 1840
  • تا پناهی یابی آن گه چون پناه ** آب و آتش مر ترا گردد سپاه‌‌

  • Did not the sea become a friend to Noah and Moses? Did it not become overbearing in vengeance against their enemies?
  • نوح و موسی را نه دریا یار شد ** نه بر اعداشان به کین قهار شد

  • Was not the fire a fortress for Abraham, so that it raised smoke (sighs of despair) from the heart of Nimrod?
  • آتش ابراهیم را نی قلعه بود ** تا بر آورد از دل نمرود دود

  • Did not the mountain call Yahyá (John the Baptist) to itself and drive off his pursuers with blows of stone?
  • کوه یحیی را نه سوی خویش خواند ** قاصدانش را به زخم سنگ راند

  • “O Yahyá,” it said, “come, take refuge in me, that I may be thy shelter from the sharp sword.”
  • گفت ای یحیی بیا در من گریز ** تا پناهت باشم از شمشیر تیز

  • How the parrot bade farewell to the merchant and flew away.
  • وداع کردن طوطی خواجه را و پریدن‌‌

  • The parrot gave him one or two counsels devoid of hypocrisy and after that bade him the farewell of parting. 1845
  • یک دو پندش داد طوطی بی‌‌نفاق ** بعد از آن گفتش سلام الفراق‌‌

  • The merchant said to her, “Go, God protect thee! Just now thou hast shown to me a new Way.”
  • خواجه گفتش فی أمان الله برو ** مر مرا اکنون نمودی راه نو

  • Said the merchant to himself, “This is the counsel for me; I will take her Way, for this Way is shining with light.
  • خواجه با خود گفت کاین پند من است ** راه او گیرم که این ره روشن است‌‌

  • How should my soul be meaner than the parrot? The soul ought to follow a good track like this.”
  • جان من کمتر ز طوطی کی بود ** جان چنین باید که نیکو پی بود

  • The harmfulness of being honoured by the people and of becoming conspicuous.
  • مضرت تعظیم خلق و انگشت نمای شدن‌‌

  • The body is cage-like: the body, amidst the cajoleries of those who come in and go out, became a thorn to the soul.
  • تن قفس شکل است تن شد خار جان ** در فریب داخلان و خارجان‌‌

  • This one says to him, “I will be thy confidant,” and that one says, “Nay, I am thy partner.” 1850
  • اینش گوید من شوم هم راز تو ** و آنش گوید نی منم انباز تو

  • This one says to him, “There is none in existence like thee for beauty and eminence and for kindness and liberality.”
  • اینش گوید نیست چون تو در وجود ** در جمال و فضل و در احسان و جود

  • That one says to him, “Both the worlds are thine, all our souls are thy soul's parasites.”
  • آنش گوید هر دو عالم آن تست ** جمله جانهامان طفیل جان تست‌‌

  • When he sees the people intoxicated with (desire for) him, because of arrogance he loses self-control.
  • او چو بیند خلق را سر مست خویش ** از تکبر می‌‌رود از دست خویش‌‌

  • He does not know that the Devil has cast thousands like him into the water of the river (of destruction).
  • او نداند که هزاران را چو او ** دیو افکنده ست اندر آب جو

  • The world's flattery and hypocrisy is a sweet morsel: eat less of it (eat it not), for it is a morsel full of fire. 1855
  • لطف و سالوس جهان خوش لقمه‌‌ای است ** کمترش خور کان پر آتش لقمه‌‌ای است‌‌

  • Its fire is hidden and its taste is manifest: its smoke becomes visible in the end.
  • آتشش پنهان و ذوقش آشکار ** دود او ظاهر شود پایان کار

  • Do not say, “How should I swallow that praise? He is speaking from desire (for reward): I am on his track (and see quite well what he is after).”
  • تو مگو آن مدح را من کی خورم ** از طمع می‌‌گوید او پی می‌‌برم‌‌

  • If your belauder should satirise you in public, your heart would burn for (many) days on account of those scorches (of vituperation).
  • مادحت گر هجو گوید بر ملا ** روزها سوزد دلت ز آن سوزها

  • Although you know that he (only) said it in disappointment because the hopes he had of you brought him no gain,
  • گر چه دانی کاو ز حرمان گفت آن ** کان طمع که داشت از تو شد زیان‌‌